Actor Lee You-mi exhibits herself on the world stage ... 13 years of acting experience since middle school

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SEOUL, September 5 (Yonhap) -- Actor Lee You-mi (28 years old) presented an eye-catching performance to the world stage through the Netflix series "Squid Game."

Lee You-mi was awarded the American Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress, competing with Hope Davis from "Succession," Harriet Wlter, and Martha Kelly from "Euphoria."

This award is an acting award given to actors whose proportion in the piece is more than 5% of the running time and less than 50%.

Lee You-mi played Ji Young, a character who participated in the game as soon as she was released from prison for killing her father, who sexually abused her and assaulted her. Her proportion in the piece was limited, but actor Lee You-mi could express all her detailed attitudes and her pessimistic attitude of having no desire for the reward or even her life.

Lee You-mi continued building her acting career by playing minor roles and main characters after she made her debut in 2009, when she was in eighth grade in a battery commercial film.

On the EBS kids' drama "Future Boy" (2010), she played the main character who is smart and lively, but afterwards she played a dark role in mainly violent and highly rated works. Actor Lee You-mi made a strong impression by emitting strong energy that showed contrasts with her clear and bright appearance.

Lee You-mi's role was a teenager who was bullied or abandoned by her parents in the short films "Superpower Girl" (2017) and "Park Hwa-young" (2018), and she later played a psychopath stalker in the MBC drama "365: Repeat the Year" (2020) and a victim of child sexual assault in the drama "Voice 2."

In her first commercial film, "Hostage: Missing Celebrity," she played the role as a hostage along with actor Hwang Jung-min. She won the 58th Baeksang Arts Awards for acting as Yoon Se-jin, who ran away from home and became a pregnant woman in the movie "Young Adult Matters" (2021).

By recently appearing in the original Netflix series "Squid Game" and "All of Us Are Dead," Lee You-mi was able to present her face to global viewers.

In regard to "Squid Game" and "All of Us Are Dead" both being ranked first in Netflix's streaming time, Lee Yoo-mi became the first Korean actor to set a record of "No. 1 in Netflix for two consecutive series" and earned the nickname "Daughter of Netflix."

Lee You-mi has been cast as the main character for the first time after turning into an adult for the tvN drama "Mental Coach Je Gal Gil" which will be released on September 12.

(This article is translated from Korean to English by Dowon Kim.)

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